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Diecious. Having the stamens and pistils on separate plants, the staminate tlowe:. 
on one and pistillate flowers on another. : 
Diverging. Widely spreading. ve 
Dorsal. Belonging to or_growing from the back. 
Emarginate. Waving a notch at the end. : 
Entire. Without notches or divisions. 
Equal. Alike in length. . 
Exserted. Protruded, extended beyond, standing out. 
Fertile. Having perfect pistils; producing fruit. 
Fibrous. Having thread-like divisions. 
Filament. The stalk or support of the anther. 
Filiform. Thread-like. 
Flexuous. Bending freely. 
Floret. The flowers of grasses are sometimes called florets. 
Foliaceous. Resembling a leaf. | 
Fusiform. Spindle-shaped, largest in the middleand tapering to both ends. 
Geniculate. Bent abruptly, like a knee. 
Genus. A group of species having a general agreement in structure. 
Glabrous. Smooth, without hairs or roughuess. 
Glaucous. Having a grayish green color. 
Glomerate. Clustered in small roundish heads. 
Glumes. ‘The chaff-like leaves forming a part of the flowers. 
Herbaceous. Herb-like, not woody. 
Hirsute. Pubescent, with rather stiff and coarse hairs. 
Hyaline. Thin and transparent. 
Imbricate. Closely overlapping each other, as frequently the flowers of a spikelet. 
Indigenous. Growing naturally; not brought from some other country. 
Inferior. Lower in position. . 
Inserted. Growing out of, or upon another. 
Internode. The space between two nodes or joints. 
Involute. Rolled together inwards. 
Joints. Thickenings in the stem where the leaves originate; separable parts of an 
axis; point of issue of the branches of a panicle. 
Keel. An elevated longitudinal ridge, in the middle of a leaf, glume, or palet; re- 
sembling the keel of a boat. 
Lamina. The free or expanded portion of a leaf, as distinguished from the petiole or 
the sheath; the blade of a leaf. ; 
Lanceolate. 'Tapering gradually to the apex, like a lancet. 
Lateral. At or from the side. : 
Ligule. A tongue-like appendage at the upper part of the sheath of a leaf. 
Line. The twelfth part of an inch. 
Linear. Long and narrow, with parellel sides. 
Lobe. Some Givision of a glume. 
Male flower. <A flower that has stamens, but -vithout pistil. 
Membranaceous. Thin like a membrane, generally somewhat translucent. 
Monecious. With stamens and pistils in different flowers on the same plant. 
Midrib. The central and principal nerve of a leaf or gluine. 
Mucronate. Abruptly tipped with a short awn or bristle. 
Nerws. The ribs or veins of a leaf, or leaf-like organ. 
Neutral. Having neither stamens nor pistils. . 
Nodes. Knots or thickened portions in the culms. 
Oblong. Longer than wide, with nearly parellel sides. * 
Obovate. Egg-shaped, with the wider end uppermost. ; 
Obtuse. Blunt or rounded at the apex. 
Oval. Broadly elliptical, approaching a rounded form. 
